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...question the competence of the prosecution, or to call for a Justice Department investigation, or even to empathize with outraged citizens," the statement reads. "This is also a moment for leaders to teach Americans about the continuing power of color in the lives of average people. We share the somber view of many that had Diallo been a European immigrant in a white neighborhood, he would be alive and unharmed today...
Ganji's writings have his friends worried for his life. He receives regular threats. "I guess I'm a troublemaker," Ganji laughs in a TIME interview. Suddenly turning somber, he adds, "I call it playing with death. One day something might happen to me. This fight for reform is lawful, but it has its price." In addition to the outpouring of public support, Ganji is encouraged by the steady flow of leaks he receives about death squads: he declines to identify his sources but likens them to the insiders who fed Woodward and Bernstein...
Sameera Fazili '00, another class marshal and co-chair of the class day speaker committee, said O'Brien was chosen in part because the group hoped he could set a lighter tone for the day--in contrast to the more "somber" nature of Commencement...
...less serious but still somber note, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker received a two-and-a-half-month suspension and $20,000 fine Monday for his recent tirade against immigrants and minorities. And that's just in the last couple of days. Last month 23-year-old Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins was arrested for breaking and entering, while Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills killed himself drag-racing Porsches with a teammate...
...Great Plains (1989) Ian Frazier transformed himself from a supremely hip New Yorker humorist into a serious but never somber chronicler of the American heartland. In On the Rez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 311 pages; $25) Frazier entertainingly continues this investigation, although his interest is now concentrated on a specific patch of the wide-open spaces, the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Why this place and these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories...